Chemistry Bumper Cars, 2019

MB News January 21, 2019June 17, 2019 4 Minutes

Hello everyone! I’m happy to be able to help facilitate this year’s New & Relocated Faculty List, also known as Chemistry Bumper Cars. This has been a tradition since it first appeared on Chembark and, most recently, Just Like Cooking — since SAO is getting a little busy these days, I figured I’d step in and host the list until he has the bandwidth to resume.

Alright, so here’s how it works: we’re looking to keep track of new hires in chemistry departments worldwide, both at the assistant faculty level and for senior hires. Please do leave a comment or DM me on Twitter if you hear about such a new hire and I’ll add it to the list!

Things I will be doing differently this year:

Since hiring decisions, especially at the senior level, are such a sensitive subject, I will be a little more judicious about what constitutes “confirmation” than in years past and what bar something has to pass to be put on the actual post. If there’s a webpage stating it, I can confirm with the actual candidate, or I have a suitably authoritative source, I’ll put it up there, otherwise I’ll do a little more digging!

Also, if you would like me to include a link to your lab webpage, please let me know!

Last updated Wednesday, May 20, 2019 – those added in most recent update are in bold.

Moves

Jacobi von Wangelin (Regensburg to Hamburg) Lab website
Ulrich Hennecke (Münster to VUB) source – thanks Joachim!
Dave Leitch (GlaxoSmithKline to University of Victoria) source
Ramesh Giri (UNM to Penn State) source – thanks Mike!
Frederic William Patureau (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern to RWTH Aachen) source
Emily Pentzer (Case Western to Texas A&M) source
Vlad Gevorgyan (UIC to UT Dallas) source
Timothy Berkelbach (Chicago to Columbia) source
Michael Mock (PNNL to Montana State) source – thanks Demyan!
Sarah O’Connor (John Innes Center to Max Planck Institute) source
Matthew Becker (U. Akron to Duke) source
Amir Hoveyda (Boston College to Strasbourg) source
Douglas Weibel (UW Madison to Amazon) source
David Martin (UC Riverside to Iowa) source
Baron Peters (UC Santa Barbara to UIUC) source
Eric Davis (Azusa Pacific to Whitworth University) source
Florence Williams (Alberta to U. Iowa) source
Erin Whitteck (Saint Louis University to U. Missouri Saint Louis) source
Marilyne Stains (U. Nebraska to UVa) source
Cliff Stains (U. Nebraska to UVa) source
Paul Robustelli (D.E. Shaw to Dartmouth) source
Samuel Pazicni (UNH to University of Wisconsin) source
Alanna Schepartz (Yale to UC Berkeley) source

New Hires

Thomas Osberger (Cal Poly Pomona) source
Gabriel Rudebusch (Eastern Michigan University) source – thanks Jeff!
Christopher Teskey (RWTH Aachen) Lab website
Meg Breen (Furman University) source
Ben Brandsen (Creighton University) source – thanks Scott!
PA Champagne (NJIT) source
Demyan Prokopchuk (Rutgers) source
Caitlin McMahon (UNC Asheville) Confirmed by direct message with Caitlin
Kate Waldie (Rutgers) source
Levi Ekanger (TCNJ) source
Eric Nacsa (Penn State) source
Marcus Drover (Windsor) source – thanks Christine!
Amanda Bongers (Queens University) source
Maia Popova (UNC Greensboro) source
Rachel Saylor (Oberlin) source, unconfirmed
Courtney Roberts (UMinnesota) source
Rose Kennedy (Rochester) source
Doran Bennett (SMU Dedman) source
Daniel Tabor (Texas A&M) source
Julian West (Rice) source
Junqi Li (Iowa State) source
Alexander Gundlach-Graham (Iowa State) source
Dianne Xiao (University of Washington) source
Alex Zhukhovitskiy (UNC) source
Andy Nguyen (University of Illinois Chicago) source
Steven Pellizzeri (Eastern Illinois University) source
Michael Beck (Eastern Illinois University) source
Matt Golder (University of Washington) source
Chenjie Zheng (University of Florida) source
Keith Searles (University of Florida) source
Steven Harris (University of Florida) source
Stefanie Habenichts (University of Florida) source
Alix Rexford (University of Florida) source
Nicole Lapeyrouse (University of Florida) source
Alexander Forse (University of Cambridge) source
Valerie Vassier Welborn (Virginia Tech) source
Emily Mevers (Virginia Tech) source
Amanda Turek (Williams College) source
Patti Zhang (WPI) source
Kyle Biegasiewicz (Arizona State University) source
Mark Levin (U. Chicago) source
Ramon Miranda Quintana (University of Florida) source
Sid Creutz (Mississippi State University) source
Fei Zhang (Rutgers Newark) source
Yang Yang (UW Madison) source
Ka Un Lao (Virginia Commonwealth University) source
Farnaz Shakib (NJIT) source
George Burslem (UPenn) source
Anya Gryn’ova (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies) confirmed with Anya via DM
Martin Peeks (UNSW) source (it’s in the news on the right, which for some reason can’t be directly linked to)
Gang Li (Utah State University) confirmed by DM with USU faculty member
Jihye Park (University of Colorado Boulder) source
Suchol Savagatrup (U Arizona) source
C. Michael McGuirk (Colorado School of Mines) source
Brian Gold (University of New Mexico) source
Stephanie Valleau (University of Washington) source
Byoungmoo Kim (Clemson University) source
Jonathan De Roo (University of Basel) source
Christine Le (University of New Mexico) source
Maggie He (U Arkansas) source
Ariel Furst (MIT) source
Tim Su (UC Riverside) source
Mei Shen (UIUC) source
Angad Mehta (UIUC) source
Joslynn Lee (Fort Lewis College) source
Silvana Konermann (Stanford) source
Andrew Kehr (Loras College) source
Caitlin Davis (Yale) source
Tatiana Mishanina (UCSD) source
Mark Herzik (UCSD) source
Xiao Su (UIUC) source
Julia Widom (University of Oregon) source
James Eagan (U. Akron) source
Fardin Khabaz (U. Akron) source
Chunming Liu (U. Akron) source
Weinan Xu (U. Akron) source
Eloise Dray (UT San Antonio) source
Young Kwon (UT San Antonio) source
James Daley (UT San Antonio) source
Bernard Fongang (UT San Antonio) source
Diana Ceballos (Boston University) source
Ben Thuronyi (Williams) source
Jarrett Wilcoxen (UW-Milwaukee) source
Julian Silverman (Manhattan College) source
Alex Pinto (Manhattan College) source
Chao Luo (George Mason University) source